Security Basics: Re: jamming or blocking WLAN

["Kelly Keeton" <kellyrkeeton () gmail com>]

you can look at the various cell phone/bluetooth/ wifi jammers out
there (key word is jammer)

however its possibly fed issue if you use it in USA, google as there
are a lot of sites that sell them, you could also just hack a old AP
to to the same thing by using the radio chips on them.

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Skullbocks
<skullbocks.mail () googlemail com> wrote:
> Adam Pal wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Do you eventualy know about some options to jam or block certain or
> > unsecured access points?
> > The point is, no matter what network security measurements are taken, if
> > an access point or a client with an unsecured connections appears, it is an
> > optimal possibility to override each security measurement, opening a
> > backdoor.
> > Since no one can be forced to secure his/her connection (WLAN can also
> > come from outside where even policies cannot be applied) i look for a
> > possibility to jam the AP for a certain area. Of course, another possibility
> > can be to go to each workstation and disable or secure its wireless NIC,
> > which will most likely be an overhead.
> > Thank you in advance for your feedback.
> >
> >
> > cheers!
> > Adam Pal
> Hi There,
>
> It depends on the hardware you are using, I know that for example cisco have
> such I option in there tools. There is a white paper on rogue access point
> mitigation somewhere on the cisco website but I can't remember where
> exactly.
>
> Maybe worst checking ;)
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Cheers